Assignment 1 - Due Sept 8 at class time

http://www.scs.gmu.edu/~jwallin/a530f03/hw1

Bohm-Vitense

• Chapter 2: #3
• Chapter 3: #1,#2,#3

Computer Problem Nearby Star Table The Catalog of Nearby Stars (Gliese et al., 1991) is a set of data about the closest stars to the Sun. From this data, I have extracted a comma delimited table that contains

B-V, APPARENT MAG, ABSOLUTE MAG
Note the correction!

Bright Star Table (updated 9/4/03 !) The Fifth Edition of the Bright Star Catalog (Hoffliet and Warren, 1991) contains data on the brightest stars around the Sun. I have extracted a second comma delimited table that contains

B-V, apparent magnitude, parallax

Construct HR diagrams for

• the nearby stars
• the bright stars
• the stars in both tables